Top Senior Legal Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Lead design and implementation of AI-assisted legal operations and knowledge-management workflows. Manage daily legal department operations, project-manage cross-functional company initiatives, evaluate and deploy AI tooling, and track adoption and efficiency. Drive process improvements and stakeholder alignment to scale legal support for a fast-growing healthcare technology company.

Provide legal guidance on healthcare regulatory matters and commercial contracting for payor and clinical partnerships. Advise on corporate practice of medicine, fraud and abuse, telehealth, HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid, AI clinical governance, and negotiate provider, payor, and commercial agreements to enable compliant growth.

Lead and scale U.S. public sector contracting: draft and negotiate SaaS/cloud and subcontract agreements, advise on FAR/DFARS/GSA/FedRAMP compliance, support RFPs and audits, build legal playbooks, and partner with cross-functional teams to mitigate regulatory and export control risk.

Build and run legal operations: implement contract lifecycle and document management systems, design intake/process workflows, support compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions, regulatory filings), manage corporate governance and entity administration, liaise with outside counsel, and help develop AI-enabled legal workflows alongside the General Counsel.

Lead a remote library and research team delivering legal, regulatory, and competitive research to attorneys. Oversee client relationships, implement research workflows and tools, govern digital resources, champion adoption of AI-powered legal technologies, and manage projects, budgets, vendors, and staff development to ensure timely, accurate insights.

Lead GoFundMe's global payments legal strategy and advise C-suite on payments, fintech, and financial services matters. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance to enable product innovation, regulatory compliance, licensing, and supervisory examinations. Build governance, legal operating models, scalable review processes, and commercial frameworks. Negotiate and counsel on strategic payment partnerships, card/ACH network rules, AML/BSA, KYC/KYB, sanctions, and cross-border regulatory matters to support platform expansion and risk management.

Manage a litigation portfolio focused on single-plaintiff consumer finance matters, including FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and state consumer protection claims. Supervise outside counsel, support regulatory investigations, conduct legal research, advise business stakeholders on litigation and compliance risks, oversee subpoenas and legal holds, develop risk mitigation strategies, monitor litigation metrics, and provide training. The role requires practical guidance across student loan servicing operations and evolving federal and state legal requirements.

Provide strategic legal counsel to Vitera leadership on commercial, product, technology, and regulatory matters. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial, SaaS, data-sharing, and vendor agreements. Structure partnerships across the defined contribution ecosystem, mitigate legal and regulatory risk, support product and operations implementation, coordinate with outside counsel (including ERISA specialists), and contribute to governance, policy, and communications review.

This role involves delivering high quality legal research services and coordinating with the Research & Information Services team to support client engagements.

The Legal Operations Director will streamline legal processes, oversee legal technology, and enhance operational performance through strategic initiatives and metrics analysis.

Provide commercial legal support for Americas (including LATAM): draft, negotiate, and close complex SaaS and software agreements; lead cross-border transactions; advise on regulatory and compliance matters; maintain templates and scalable contracting workflows; provide training and partner with sales and business leaders to enable revenue growth.

Leads commercial, privacy, and product legal functions for a cloud technology company. Drafts and negotiates complex SaaS, partnership, reseller, and technology agreements; advises on global privacy, data protection, AI, intellectual property, and product development issues; develops contracting processes and playbooks; partners with cross-functional teams; and manages, mentors, and develops legal professionals.

Leads litigation, eDiscovery, intellectual property, DMCA, and brand protection operations. Coordinates legal holds, document collections, productions, outside counsel, vendors, trademark and patent administration, copyright enforcement, domain management, and marketplace investigations. Develops scalable workflows, SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, and automation while partnering with Engineering, Security, IT, Product, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams.

Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions; lead complex advisory and contentious employee matters; implement scalable legal solutions; drive cross-functional initiatives; build team knowledge resources and governance; manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects.

Provide day-to-day legal support to commercial, marketing, and functional teams across Dental Solutions and Health Information Systems. Review routine commercial and operational matters, support marketing/claims and contracting activities, maintain legal templates and processes, deliver training, coordinate with Regulatory, IP, Privacy, and Compliance, and help ensure timely, compliant business execution.

Author and verify rigorous multiple-choice legal assessment items for AI benchmarks across multiple legal specialties. Create clear, self-contained questions with one correct answer and nine plausible distractors, classify difficulty, provide structured solution explanations and references, and review/edit questions for legal accuracy and clarity. Work remotely, asynchronously, as an independent contractor, committing 10+ hours weekly.

Manage construction defect litigation and complex third-party claim files, perform coverage analysis, manage outside counsel, conduct legal research and file audits, advise on negotiations/mediations, recommend reserves/payments, and support policy form review and claims reporting to senior management.

Provide U.S. regulatory legal counsel on crypto and financial matters, coordinate with agencies and internal teams on investigations, enforcement, AML/sanctions compliance, remediation, and regulatory filings, and advise on evolving U.S. regulatory developments affecting the business.

Manage full contract lifecycle including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, executing, and maintaining contracts. Route approvals and signatures, manage expirations, support template and clause library development, assist with corporate filings and subpoena responses, advise stakeholders on contracting best practices and regulatory compliance, and oversee departmental operations in leaders absence.

Provide commercial legal support for sales, finance, product, and engineering: draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, partner, vendor, and NDAs; identify data, IP, and privacy risks; build templates and playbooks; use AI-assisted contract tools to streamline workflows; coordinate with data acquisition, product, and privacy teams.

Provide senior-level legal expertise to design, evaluate, and benchmark AI systems for legal tasks. Review AI outputs, create task specifications and reference solutions, develop evaluation frameworks and scoring guidelines, and give structured feedback. Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and program teams to translate professional legal judgment into consistent evaluation standards.

Own commercial contracting, privacy and data-protection (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) programs, corporate governance, IP/open-source policy, and telecom/AI regulatory posture. Be the in-house legal function: build playbooks, support Sales/Product/Engineering, and manage outside counsel to keep deals and product shipping moving quickly.

Lead the legal function: own commercial contracting, stand up privacy and data-protection programs, advise Sales/Finance/Product/Engineering, manage corporate governance and equity matters, set IP/open-source and AI governance posture, and manage outside counsel while building playbooks to enable fast business operations.

Provide hands-on regulatory and commercial legal advice for crypto, web3, fintech and payments products. Advise product teams on design, licensing, compliance (AML/KYC, sanctions), marketing/promotions, and cross-jurisdiction regulatory risks. Lead licensing/submission processes, coordinate local counsel, draft and negotiate commercial contracts, respond to regulators and stakeholders, and build scalable playbooks to enable compliant product launches.